Sentence examples for outright rule from inspiring English sources

But the Supreme Court didn't outright rule that life imprisonment without parole is never appropriate for youth offenders.

She was then overthrown, followed by years of brutal repression under outright military rule.

If I am not mistaken, they want to extend the executive federalism of the Lisbon treaty into an outright intergovernmental rule by the European Council.

But the Americans then imposed in Iraq a form of trusteeship echoing that of 18th-century Britain: outright imperial rule of a sovereign nation deemed unfit to function in the modern world.

On Friday, at the first talks of their kind as the nation emerges from decades of outright military rule, Thein Sein and Suu Kyi walked in to the meeting together.

That poll, the first in the nation in 20 years, moved Myanmar away from decades of outright military rule.

Ending human rights abuses is a key demand of the international community, which has encouraged reforms in Burma since the end of outright military rule in 2011.

Instead of outright totalitarian rule, you construct the appearance of democracy, while controlling it by subtly — in some cases perhaps not even consciously — restricting the options available to individual voters; by controlling a tiered system of "representative" electors behind the scenes; or by simply outright stuffing the ballot box.

With some major exceptions of outright military rule, the Roman Republic remained an alliance of independent city-states and kingdoms (with varying degrees of independence, both de jure and de facto) until it transitioned into the Roman Empire.

Most of those outright discriminatory rules ended in the civil rights era of the 1960s, but Florida's felony voting ban stubbornly continued.

Another predictable outcome is that Trump will hit some roadblocks if he tries to rescind this rule outright.